59. Utek, a business development company that finds, acquires, develops, and finances university technology for its customers, issues the following warning in its prospectus: "Our management has limited experience operating a business, has had no experience in managing and operating a business development company, and has little or no experience in corporate finance and corporate mergers."
"But at least they're honest, right? That kind of brutal honesty will send them straight to the top. Let me call my broker...."
We should give them bread and circusses, not wake them up to the truth like this. Where ignoarance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise, and it is better for the masses if they exist in joyful prejudiced ignoarance. I think that the matrix should never have been released for this reason.
Yeah, the large-scale, working class riots that erupted after people saw this movie are proof of that. Oh wait. NOTHING HAPPENED.
The Matrix was much less a working-class metaphysical wakeup call and more just another avenue for awkward-intelligent escapist nerds and misfits. Now in addition to becoming Barbarian, thief, or comic book superhero they can escape to an entire alternate world where the successful, the atheletic, and the 'in-crowd' are all just suckers who haven't realized they're batteries.
Only criminals would worry about security, because the rest of us have nothing to hide from the world.
Got a lock on your bathroom door? What you doing in there, drugs? Jerking off to kiddie porn? Why else would you have a lock on your bathroom door?
I guess I shouldn't bother encrypting all these credit card numbers on the server.... someone will think it's illegal material and bring down the feds on my ass. Better to leave em where anyone can find them easily....
Oh. Good troll. you had me goin there for a while.
Moderation should not be used. It shouold be a free for all, with the irresponsible forced to face up to what they do. Its that simple.
You post this on a moderated web site. The value of the site is measured in 'mind-share' (or maybe time-share) of the users it has. You are contributing to this... putting your 'content vote' into Slashdot.
There is no shortage of unmoderated forums. Go post to Usenet, and watch your thread be ignored amidst a sea of non-sequitors, me-toos, flames, and spam.
Wow, you didn't do so well on reading comprehension tests in school did you? People can ALREADY block ads./. can't do anything about it.
So what do you propose that Slashdot gets in return. Karma? Hello? What the hell are they supposed to do with karma?
What is proposed is that people (read USERS) could SPEND karma (or get abilities based on high karma) to either temporarily block ads, or filter them. (Picture a check box under an ad: NEVER SHOW THIS AD AGAIN). Advertisers could get feedback on what's not working so well, Slashdot could actually build a profile of what class of ad's you prefer. Advertisers would be willing to pay MORE for this, not less.
Well, blocking ads is a good solution for people with a severe distaste for them. I'll click a funny or intriguing ad in my free time...
As far as ad removal on Slashdot, this seems to be a wonderful use of karma. Maybe karma points could be spent for ad supression or control. This would give those with maxed out karma a reason to keep active!
We send people to prison to rehabilitate them, not to punish them.
SO, when they sentence someone to life in prison without chance of parole they're hoping to rehabilitate them in their NEXT LIFE?
You can't generalize the purpose of prison like that. Different people have different philosophies regarding prison including: rehab punishment keeping them away from society a deterrent
To respond to your 'though', many who believe in prison as either a punishment or deterrent would rather think of it as an unpleasant experience, since in reality they're getting taxpayer-funded 3-square-meal, free gym membership, cable tv, place to sleep, etc etc.
An interesting example of just this is detailed on FuckedCompany.com where some ICQ logs of eFront's CEO were nabbed and posted by a disgruntled employee. He was discussing his plans to screw affiliates....
Led by the Online Privacy Alliance in Washington, the loosely organized campaign is attacking legislative proposals on three fronts: identifying expensive regulatory burdens, raising questions about how any U.S. Internet law would apply to non-Internet industries, and assuring lawmakers that privacy is best guarded by new technology, not new laws.
On a certain level, I have to agree with this. What we need is an informed consumer base able to make decisions with the knowledge of what privacy is being traded for what benefit. Having a mish-mash of laws to 'protect' us only confuses matters and sends MegaCorps scrambling for loopholes, which they are adept at exploiting.
Privacy should be based on technology and an infrastructure that supports it. The problem occurs when the same MegaCorp writing the software and influencing the infrastructure has a vested interest in using personal private information.
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Reach for a kleenex and hear ads for the latest cold medicine as you blow your nose!
And of course, new at Spencer Gifts:
Talking toilet paper! With hilarious phrases like 'Man it's dark in here' and 'you thought YOU had a shit job'!
Chesty-wet-babe posters will now spout 900-ads at regular intervals.
How do you Ximian? I didn't even know it was a verb? Can you GNOME? Is that some kind of dance?
59. Utek, a business development company that finds, acquires, develops, and finances university technology for its customers, issues the following warning in its prospectus: "Our management has limited experience operating a business, has had no experience in managing and operating a business development company, and has little or no experience in corporate finance and corporate mergers."
"But at least they're honest, right? That kind of brutal honesty will send them straight to the top. Let me call my broker...."
Hmm, wouldn't that be pronounced "Dot-dot-bomb" and "dot-dot-fortune"?
My personal favorite pronounciation is Digital:Convergence: "digital colon convergence"...sounds like a new digital ass-interface...
And just because these junk bonds are junk bonds doesn't mean they're worthless.... oh wait, yes it does.
Yeah, the large-scale, working class riots that erupted after people saw this movie are proof of that. Oh wait. NOTHING HAPPENED.
The Matrix was much less a working-class metaphysical wakeup call and more just another avenue for awkward-intelligent escapist nerds and misfits. Now in addition to becoming Barbarian, thief, or comic book superhero they can escape to an entire alternate world where the successful, the atheletic, and the 'in-crowd' are all just suckers who haven't realized they're batteries.
HELLO. Why do you think they call it RENT? You have it, the rental period ends, it's done.
Think this is a raw deal? Think you might get screwed? Then reconsider the software rental model.
I thought that was what things like Echelon and Carnivore were for????
Got a lock on your bathroom door? What you doing in there, drugs? Jerking off to kiddie porn? Why else would you have a lock on your bathroom door?
I guess I shouldn't bother encrypting all these credit card numbers on the server.... someone will think it's illegal material and bring down the feds on my ass. Better to leave em where anyone can find them easily....
Oh. Good troll. you had me goin there for a while.
You mean like Xerox PARC asking Microsoft AND Apple for compensation.
You never caught on to that?
My friend, you are only a few years too late to submit your 'modal'. Search the web for peer to peer or gnutella.
Is this a case of sour grapes after the metoric rise and subsequent fall of RHAT?
XTREME HARD-DISK DEFRAGGING!
"DUude, he's catching some SICK sectors!!"
Talk about loss of features....
CLEVER? Script kiddie actions require the same amount of cleverness as figuring out how to use a blow-up doll.
You post this on a moderated web site. The value of the site is measured in 'mind-share' (or maybe time-share) of the users it has. You are contributing to this... putting your 'content vote' into Slashdot.
There is no shortage of unmoderated forums. Go post to Usenet, and watch your thread be ignored amidst a sea of non-sequitors, me-toos, flames, and spam.
So what do you propose that Slashdot gets in return. Karma? Hello? What the hell are they supposed to do with karma?
What is proposed is that people (read USERS) could SPEND karma (or get abilities based on high karma) to either temporarily block ads, or filter them. (Picture a check box under an ad: NEVER SHOW THIS AD AGAIN). Advertisers could get feedback on what's not working so well, Slashdot could actually build a profile of what class of ad's you prefer. Advertisers would be willing to pay MORE for this, not less.
As far as ad removal on Slashdot, this seems to be a wonderful use of karma. Maybe karma points could be spent for ad supression or control. This would give those with maxed out karma a reason to keep active!
Isn't everybody TRYING to get bloated performance?
AHA! You've confirmed what I always suspected. MY computers seem to be serving General Protection, and Kernel Panic.
I just love the way ATRAC is a homonym of 8-Track, the old 1970's music media.
SO, when they sentence someone to life in prison without chance of parole they're hoping to rehabilitate them in their NEXT LIFE?
You can't generalize the purpose of prison like that. Different people have different philosophies regarding prison including:
rehab
punishment
keeping them away from society
a deterrent
To respond to your 'though', many who believe in prison as either a punishment or deterrent would rather think of it as an unpleasant experience, since in reality they're getting taxpayer-funded 3-square-meal, free gym membership, cable tv, place to sleep, etc etc.
An interesting example of just this is detailed on FuckedCompany.com where some ICQ logs of eFront's CEO were nabbed and posted by a disgruntled employee. He was discussing his plans to screw affiliates....
On a certain level, I have to agree with this. What we need is an informed consumer base able to make decisions with the knowledge of what privacy is being traded for what benefit. Having a mish-mash of laws to 'protect' us only confuses matters and sends MegaCorps scrambling for loopholes, which they are adept at exploiting.
Privacy should be based on technology and an infrastructure that supports it. The problem occurs when the same MegaCorp writing the software and influencing the infrastructure has a vested interest in using personal private information.